Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, straight from Vassar, Anne Waterman went to Poland to become a teacher at the University of Warsaw (TIME, Aug. u, 1947). Last week she was back in the U.S., feeling "just distressed" by her experience...
...brothers were waiting for him. He was speechless at first, and his mother was in tears. After a painful silence, he managed to speak. "I've never worked longer or harder," he mumbled. "I'm hungry. I had steak for breakfast, but that seems days ago...
...Broadwayites agreed with the directors that the Met couldn't safely raise the price of its orchestra seats above the present $7.50. The antiquated horseshoe house seats less than 3,500, one-third the capacity of municipal auditoriums in such cities as Cleveland, St. Louis, Seattle. As long ago as 1925 Otto Kahn had told the management it needed a new house-but the board still has done nothing about...
...steeple jack's scaffolding set against the vertical face of Mt. Behistun, in Persia, the University of Chicago's Dr. George G. Cameron, an Elamitist (authority on the ancient state of Elam), would soon be busy with his research. There, some 2,500 years ago, King Darius of Persia had his portrait carved along with ten of his liquidated enemies. Long inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian tell how Darius attributed his success up to this point (later his armies were soundly whipped by the Greeks at Marathon) to the favor of his god, Ahura Mazda...
These inscriptions were the "Rosetta Stone of Western Asia" which enabled scholars to decipher Babylonian and the other cuneiform languages of ancient Mesopotamia. About 100 years ago, philologists dangled from the cliff to copy part of the inscriptions; they tried it again in 1904. But much was missed or garbled, and the inscriptions are too inaccessible to be photographed effectively. The Cameron party will make accurate copies by pressing a rubber compound against the carvings. Orientalists all over the world are eagerly awaiting the results...